Posted in: At Your Leisure College Football in the Circle City Derailed: The 1903 Purdue Wreck

The 1903 Purdue football team of which fourteen members perished in a train wreck in Indianapolis. (Image: Purdue University) For many, this weekend marks the true beginning of autumn as college football kicks off across...

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Posted in: Historic Miscellania National Motor Vehicle Company Building

Rear view of the National Motor Vehicle Co. building at 22nd Street and the Monon – Photo by Ryan Hamlett Another May has come and gone, another Indianapolis 500 with it, re-associating “Indianapolis” and “motor...

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Posted in: Then & Now Indianapolis Then and Now: S. Meridian Street and Bluff Road

Bluff Road begins in the 1900 block of S. Meridian Street and  angles southwest creating a wedge-shaped parcel. Long ago a two-story frame flatiron building was constructed on the land and through the years it...

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